From the Practice

The Blog

Writing on trauma, healing, and the approaches I use with clients.

Anxiety

The TIPP Skill: A Fast Way to Calm Your Nervous System

When anxiety hijacks your body, you cannot think your way out. The TIPP skill from DBT works by targeting your physiology directly — using temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation to interrupt the anxiety cycle fast.

Therapy Approaches

IFS Therapy Explained Through Inside Out

Pixar's Inside Out imagined the mind as a collection of distinct emotional characters. Internal Family Systems therapy is built on the same foundational idea — and it goes much deeper. Here is what IFS actually is, how it works, and why it might be the most intuitive model of the mind you have ever encountered.

Trauma Therapy

IFS Therapy and Trauma Recovery: Healing Your Inner World

Internal Family Systems therapy helps you understand the different parts of yourself that carry pain. Here is how IFS supports trauma healing.

Healing

The Dark Night of the Soul: When Everything Falls Apart

There is a particular kind of suffering that does not have a clean diagnosis. Not quite depression, not a breakdown — but the experience of having the ground fall out from under you. Here is what the dark night of the soul actually is, and how therapy can help you find your footing in it.

Trauma Therapy

What Is Brainspotting Therapy — And Could It Help You Heal?

Brainspotting is a powerful trauma therapy that uses your field of vision to locate and release pain stored in the body. Here is what to expect.

Getting Started

Anxious About Starting Therapy? That Makes Sense.

Feeling nervous before your first therapy session is completely normal. Here is what that anxiety is really about and how to move through it.